HAPPINESS

The entire The Fray album is excellent, both lyrically and musically. I could listen to it all day long (ok, right now I do). My favorite songs are “You Found Me,” and the album closer, “Happiness.”

I listened to “Happiness” just once before I thought of a friend of mine and how we both wrestle with this beast. I love it when I listen to a song and it brings me to a person, place, a sigh, a conversation or confession. I think this song will be a favorite of mine for years to come, just because of how much takes hold of me even when I’m not listening to it.

Happiness isn’t a given, it’s a choice. It’s not a feeling, or a right, or person, or a thing. I believe happiness is something that happens when I choose hope and let it lead me to places I could never dream of on my own. Before happiness, there must be hope, and before I can choose happiness, I must choose hope.

Happiness…Look for it and you’ll never find it allBut let it go, live your life and leave itThen one day you’ll wake up and she’ll be home

HAPPINESS(Isaac Slade/The Fray)

Happiness was just outside my windowI thought it’d crash blowing eighty miles an hourBut happiness is a little more like knockingOn your door, you just let it in

Happiness feels a lot like sorrowLet it be, you can’t make it come or goBut you are gone, not for good but for nowAnd gone for now feels a lot like gone for good

Happiness is a firecracker sitting on my headboardHappiness was never mine to holdCareful child, light the fuse and get awayCause happiness throws a shower of sparks

Happiness damn near destroys youBreaks your faith to pieces on the floorSo you tell yourself that’s enough for nowBut happiness has a violent roar

Happiness it’s like the old man told meLook for it and you’ll never find it allBut let it go, live your life and leave itThen one day you’ll wake up and she’ll be home